Excellent version! Lovely to hear 'Camburn', 'feeaather' and also 'blawed' instead of 'played', which I hear every Whit and while...

As long as a hundred of us remain alive, we shall never give in to the domination of the English. We fight not for glory, not for wealth nor honours but only and alone for freedom, which no good man surrenders but with his life...

Many thanks, TK, from Marhak and Mellotron. I've wanted one of these since first hearing one in 1967! This is the first digital model, only developed last year, all 100 instruments and vocals 24-bit sampled from the original mellotron tape archive. It'll do pianos, organs, harps, harpsichords, saxes, flutes, brass, woodwinds, bells, gongs (incl. the full J. Arthur Rank), strings, guitars, mandolins and even human vocals, from male and female solo voices to full choirs. Not electronic imitations, but recordings of the real things. It allows you to mix one sound into another, has the superb pitch-bend facility its predecessors had, and a tone control that lets you brighten or mute the sound. It even keeps the 8-second note limit of the originals (which takes a bit of getting used to). It looks just like the top section of a Mellotron 400, but has extra keys to create a full 37-key 3 octave keyboard (the big ones only have 35-note manuals). There are only about 1,000 mellotrons in existence, and only 100 of this new model. A fabulous thing, with jaw-dropping sounds, and a 40-year dream come true! Have just devised a strings/choir backing to one of Matthew Clarke's new songs so, hopefully and before too long, you'll be hearing a song, in Cornish, with mellotron behind it.

Matthew Clarke and Skwardya have now produced "Gras dhe Nev" (available on line - just google Skwardya's Facebook page), including mellotron after 1st chorus and onwards (16-violins/mixed choir blend). Last sound is just the mellotron strings.

TK, It is properly called the "Newlyn Fishermen's Reel" (Plethen Pyscadoryon Newlyn" in modern parlance). It is clearly of Eastern European origin, but nevertheless a collected dance during the 70s. The shortening of the name is rather unfortunate, as is also the tendency - especially in sessions - to just simply repeat the 'B' part and miss the change of form & rhythm in the more staccato 'A' part. There is also the danger that the wandering accompaniment misrepresents the style of the tune, possibly your reason for the 2nd query.

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